12 16 Digging Tools

1. Horticulture Equipment
Plant: Blue Spruce
Term: Shovel

2. Blue Spruce
Picea pungens
•Plant type: Evergreen Tree
•USDA Hardiness Zones: 3a to 7b
•Height: 35 – 60 ft, Spread: 15 – 25 ft
•Exposure: partial shade to full sun
As a Christmas Tree needs full sun
•Leaf Color: Blue, Silvery
•Growth Rate: average
•Form: Columnar, Pyramidal
•Uses: Specimen, windbreak
•Very prickly when used as a Christmas tree

3. •Shovel – used for cleaning loose soil from
planting holes and other scooping uses. A
shovel has sides
•A spade does not
•Spading shovel – a combination tool that
can be used for both digging as well as
scooping
Shovels

4. Digging tools
•Spades – are flatter than shovels. They
penetrate the soil better but have less
scooping capability
•May have a flat edge for borders or a
curved edge for digging holes for plantings
•May be narrow for trenches

5. Digging tools
•Garden or spading fork – used for
turning over soil that is not compacted,
digging bulbs and potatoes, and
weeding
•Scoop – used for moving loose
materials such as crushed stone or
peat moss

6. Digging tools
•Hand trowel – used for transplanting
bedding flowers.
•Post hole digger – digs deep narrow holes
for posts
•Bulb planter

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17. Sharpening Tools

18. Sharpening Cutting Tools
•Saws
•Chain Saw – Round Files
•Most saws need professional sharpening
•Off-set teeth
•Sharpen Cutting Edge

19. Sharpen Pruners & Loppers
•Anvil
–Sharpen both sides of cutting blade
–Not the anvil side
•Bypass
–Sharpen one side only

20. Sharpening Pruners
•1. Take apart
•Remember which side the washer was on

21. Sharpening Pruners
•Determine cutting edge
•Sharpen with a stone & oil or a sharpening
tool

22. Clean with solvent
•Turpentine, kerosene, or adhesive
remover will clean off sap from blades and
handles
•Remove all rust with steel wool
–Not soap pads
•Oil all parts

23. Reassemble
•Make sure blades align
•Pay attention to the shapes of the washers
and bolts

24. Check
•Make sure there is not gap when the
pruners are closed